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Tag Archives: Canada
Recapping on Canada
I realize I have already told you a lot about our Canadian trip, but while presenting a talk to the Lyceum Club about our trip, I realized how much I had left out, and for my own benefit,at least, will … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Travel
Tagged Athabasca Glacier, Banff, British Columbia, Canada, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Manitoba, Montreal, Nanaimo, Okanagan Valley, Ontario, Portage la Prairie, Quebec, Regina, Saskachewan, Toronto, TRans Canadian Highway, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victorian, Winnipeg
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Into the West…
Vancouver Island. An island off the south coast of British Columbia that is 456 km long and 100 km across at its widest point. The population of Vthe island is around 90,000, half of whom live in Greater Victoria on … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Food & Wine, Travel
Tagged California sealions, Canada, Cathedral Grove, Florencia Bay, Humpback Whales, Lake Cowichan, Nanaimo, orcas, Roy Henry Vickers, Salish Sea, sea otters, Steller sealions, Tofino, Vancouver Island, Victoria
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To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Art as Action
Colonialism is not a beautiful picture sometimes. When we talk about Native people, we’re wards of the Crown, we are under separate citizenship. It’s a polite way of saying you’re a slave to colonialism. It’s still “us and them.” ~ … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Local Culture, Travel
Tagged Bill Reid, British Columbia, Canada, colonization, dispossession, Eric Robertson, First Nations, indigenous, Inuit, Métis, Museum of Anthropology, potlatch, totem pole, UBC, Vancouver
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…Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
The road from Toronto to Jasper goes on forever, and mostly in a straight line. It makes you believe in the possibility of a flat earth, and I find myself watching the horizon fearfully In case we should tumble off … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Local Culture, Travel
Tagged Canada, Manitoba, Portage la Prairie, Regina, Saskatchewan, WAG-Qaumajuq, Winnipeg
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